If the pen is mightier than the sword, it's only fair that the pencil is potentially lethal, right?Trainee NinjaSpawn botched his Dex roll earlier today, when he grabbed one of his sister's pencils, ran along the hall from their room to ours (that's mine and Grumpy's) and threw himself down on our bed... getting himself a nice bloody gash in the face.
Naturally, he cried and flailed, giving me hell before I could cleanse the cut... but then relented and actually sat prettily for me to smear antibiotic cream on. He was his usual chatty, chirpy self within five minutes, without needing as much as an extra cuddle (he goes for them when he's feeling ill, but injuries roll off his back as soon as the pain recedes, it seems).
In the end, I was the one who was left rattled, imagining all sorts of horrors that might have happened - if the pencil had actually been sharpened, if it had slid upwards instead of sideways. Spawn could have been blinded or dead in the blink of an eye, without me being able to do a thing.
I really should be getting him out, even in the rain, at least to blow off some steam.
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